Patrick What Andrew is saying, and I concur, is that loss of speech, to some extent, always was and always will be an issue with screen readers interacting with both a speech synthesizer and other software all competing for system resources. The best we can hope for is that this remains at some minimum level, but I never expect that this can ever be eliminated. Yes, loss of speech is exceedingly frustrating especially if you are in the middle of something and stand to lose your work; but I am personally more concerned with issues such as not always being able to get at stuff on given pages due to flash, et al. A screen reader at best is always going to be a work in progress given that it deals with a moving target that, if anything, moves more and more. Frankly, I don't know how screen readers do as much as they do not due to the moving target but that also those that write the software have to learn new and newer things just to keep their proverbial heads above water. Its a thankless job.
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